Référence : L133224
Éditeur : George Allen and Unwin Ltd London
Année : 1967
Catégorie : Chemin de Fer
Description
Chemin de fer. Ferroviaire. Train. Texte en anglais / Text in english ! By O. S. Nock B.Sc., C.Eng., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Loco.E. --- The day of the steam locomotive in Great Britain is now nearing its end, and among the countless enthusiasts who will treasure its memory there will be many who scarcely knew it in its prime. The simplicity of its design has been studied and extolled, but few can deny its strong emotional appeal, nor the infinite variations of styling, finish and performance of the different classes emanating from such celebrated works as Crewe, Derby, Doncaster, Eastleigh and Swindon. O. S. Nock has ridden more than 30,000 miles on the footplate of British locomotives, but more than mere mileage his experience is perhaps more diverse than that of any man living. While railwaymen would ride extensively on the engines of their own railway Nock has ridden over every mile from Wick to Penzance; from Holyhead and Fishguard to Great Yarmouth and Dover. His experience goes back to Great Northern and North British "Atlantics", to Midland compounds, Pickersgill 4-4-0s in regular express duty, and Highland "Castles", and comes forward to the present electric and diesel age. In this book he has brought together, into a connected story, an account of locomotive working from the great days of the later 1930"s when the giant Gresley 2-8-2s were first taking the road, and the Stanier Pacifics were deep in teething troubles, through the immediate aftermath of World War II, with its years of prolonged austerity, to the "St. Martin"s Summer" of steam in the early 1950"s, with the Bristolian and the Cornish Riviera Express once again running to pre-war schedules, with the Elizabethan making the London-Edinburgh "non-stop" faster than ever before. And when, in the first wave of standardisation, one could travel on the same class of locomotive, the "Britannias", from Penzance to Plymouth, from St. Pancras to Manchester, from Victoria to Dover, and from Liverpool Street to Norwich. In such a mileage Nock has met all sorts of conditions of engines, rough and smooth, and some experience of failure and mischance, is interwoven with tales of brilliant and spectacular running. There was a day on the Somerset and Dorset line when half the brick arch fell in on the Stanier "Black-Five" working The Pines Express; a Bulleid "Pacific" on the Golden Arrow developed a hot side-rod bearing, and on another occasion the up Royal Scot nearly ran out of coal. But the author was also on the footplate on some glorious occasions, on "Schools", "Castles", "Duchesses", "Britannias" and the rejuvenated veteran City of Truro when an attempt was made at a really high maximum speed down Wellington bank. The highest speed at which Nock has travelled on the footplate was 103 1/2 m.p.h., on a Gresley "A4" Pacific. The book is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of nearly 100 photographs of British steam locomotives at work
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